" Many people would also agree with Amartya Sen, the economist-philosopher and Nobel Prize Laureate, that poverty leads to an intolerable waste of talent. As he puts it, poverty is not just a lack of money; it is not having the capability to realize one’s full potential as a human being. "

― Abhijit V. Banerjee , Poor Economics: A Radical Rethinking of the Way to Fight Global Poverty